Rahinah Ibrahim, a Malaysian woman who was a Stanford University scholar, was detained when she tried to fly from California to Hawaii for an academic conference in 2005. A month earlier she had been questioned by the FBI regarding the Malaysian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah.

Ibrahim's attorney said the woman is not seeking monetary damages. She's asking to be removed from the no-fly list and for an explanation regarding why she was put on the list in the first place.

Her testimony in the case, on which a judge is expected to rule within weeks, was done via video because the U.S. government refused her request to fly from Malaysia to California to testify in person.